The overall value of the ten best-selling craft beers in the UK on-trade plummeted by £105.8m in the past 12 months – with 130,742 hectolitres, or around 23m pints, fewer poured.
Christmas is coming and the pub sector is inundated with restrictions but hopefully technology can provide some of the solutions to allow operators to make the most of whatever opportunities they’ve got.
Real estate investment trust NewRiver’s 700-strong pub arm will rebrand as ‘Hawthorn: The Community Pub Company’ as it seeks to become the UK’s number one community operator.
The announcement of the tiering system leaving 99% of the UK in higher and extreme restrictive measures has come as a hammer blow to the hospitality industry - as Greene King ceo Nick Mackenize said, a lockdown in all but name.
According to Lumina Intelligence’s UK Pub Market Report 2020, both strongly positive and strongly negative opinions of Brexit have become more prevalent within the on-trade over the past 12 months.
In addition to more festive and low-alcohol pours, Captain Sir Tom Moore, Gemma Collins and Rugby World Cup winner Steve Thompson MBE have announced new drinks launches.
Despite being closed for four months, facing strict curfews, tier systems and enduring a second national lockdown, drinks sales in the on-trade were strong when the sector was open.
The day after another 696 coronavirus-related deaths were recorded across the UK – the highest daily total since start of May – the Government has cooked up a new three-tiered trifle to force feed the embattled on-trade.
Pub operator Fuller, Smith & Turner has revealed a swing of around £40m from profit to loss in its financial results for the 26 weeks to 26 September after its pubs spent more than half of the period in lockdown.
Community pub operator Hawthorn has earmarked in the region of £7.5m for investment in its pub estate over the next financial year despite the impact of Covid-19.
A new report from Lumina Intelligence has found that coronavirus has carved 14bn off the sector’s value – but what specific symptoms has the trade shown, and what could its recovery look like?
Birmingham-based pub group Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has revealed a £300m swing from pre-tax profit to loss in the 52 weeks ended 26 September 2020 – a period in which it was forced to axe 1,300 staff members.
More than 50 pub and brewing firms have signed a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, telling him the trade is being “scapegoated” and could be lost for good unless he takes action.
With a number of pubs expected to only be allowed to remain open if serving food when the latest tier measures are revealed, The Morning Advertiser takes a look at what constitutes a “substantial” meal.
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The Government’s proposed plans to ease restrictions and allow people to form a “Christmas bubble” makes a mockery of the additional measures on pubs, one trade body has stated.
In addition to news of the revival of dormant pubs in Cambridgeshire and Herefordshire, Portobello Brewery, Hackney Brewery and Rosewell Estates have provided updates on the future of their trading estates.
Wet-led pubs placed in the two highest tiers of the new restrictions once lockdown is eased will collectively lose £1.5bn in turnover, it has been estimated.
The howls of anger continue to grow from a hospitality industry that continues to feel victimised and targeted by political leaders who refuse to justify their arguments with science.
Pubs can reopen after the second national lockdown restrictions are eased next month (December) but will have to adhere to rules upon opening the doors once again
The new restrictions on how pubs can operate in the tiered system once lockdown is eased will mean closures and further job losses, a trade body has said.
Consumer spend in restaurants and other food-led outlets is forecast to plummet by 57.8% year-on-year as part of a near £200bn drop in spend during 2020.
Pubs will face a raft of new rules including an 11pm curfew and a change in local tiered restrictions when lockdown is eased, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced today (Monday 23 November).
The trade has slammed the Government for the possible measures it is set to impose, once national lockdown restrictions are lifted next month (December).
Lumina Intelligence UK Pub Market Report 2020 found this year, the pub market is set to be worth £9bn with the impact of the pandemic wiping 61% (£14bn) off its value.
Removing the Job Retention Bonus means the hospitality sector is missing out on £2.1bn, a trade body has warned Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak.
A wave of new spirit news including updates from botanical rum distillery the Spirited Union, the Cotswolds Distillery, Nordic beverage brand Altia and alcohol-free spirit maker Caleño has landed in the past week.
In the latest episode of Saving Britain’s Pubs with Tom Kerridge, viewers saw the celebrity chef question Punch boss Clive Chesser and saw the first effects of coronavirus on the trade.
